Barbee-Best family papers, 1797

Part of Barbee-Best family papers

72M4
Barbee-Best family papers, 1797-1925
72M4
Finding aid prepared by Laura A. Hess
University of Kentucky Special Collections
Special Collections
Margaret I. King Building, North
Lexington, KY, 40506-0039
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SCLREF@LSV.UKY.EDU
2011 October 28
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Barbee-Best family papers
72M4
University of Kentucky Special Collections
0.45 Cubic feet
1 box
1797-1925
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
Conditions Governing Use note
The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections.
Preferred Citation note
72M4: [Identification of item], Barbee-Best family papers, 1797-1925, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
Biographical note
The Barbee family, originally from Virginia, settled in Kentucky after the Revolutionary War. The family owned a plantation called Oakland in Danville until the Civil War. The family had a long military history, with family members serving in both the Civil War and the Revolutionary War. The Barbee family joined with the Best family when Sally Barbee married Isaac R. Best in the early 1800s. In the early 1900s, Nancy
Nannie Barbee travelled the eastern Unites States performing dramatic readings of
dialect stories about plantation life.
Barbee Family.
Ormsby.com. Accessed 28 Oct. 2011
Some Descendants of Andrew Barbee, Fifth Generation.
Rootsweb. Accessed 28 Oct. 2011.
Scope and Contents note
The Barbee-Best family papers record the family's history and activities through letters, financial and legal papers, genealogy records, scrapbooks, and copies of Nancy Barbee's dramatic readings. The majority of the papers date between the end of the Civil War and the early 1900s. Nancy Barbee and Thomas Barbee feature prominently in the collection.
Arrangement note
Collection is arranged by subject.
Barbee, Nannie, (Nancy)
Barbee, Thomas, 1749-1818
Best, Harry, Dr.
Best, I.D.
Correspondence.
Danville (Ky.)
Danville (Ky.)--Social life and customs--19th century
Dramatists
Family archives--Kentucky.
Scrapbooks--United States.
Women dramatists.
Nancy Barbee readings
1
1
undated
Correspondence
1
2
1905-1925
Genealogy
1
3
undated
Financial and Legal
1
4
1797, 1859-1891
Literary and Social Club
1
5
1873-1876
Scrapbook
1
6
1889
Account book
1
7
1865-1876